Instinct Quotes · Page 20

You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.

— Gerard Way

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

My music is born from instinct. I react to situations a script may provide while creating a song.

— Amit Trivedi

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

— Shonda Rhimes

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

— Eric Liddell

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

— Lynn Abbey

I strongly believe that many of the best decisions are made on gut instinct.

— Emilia Wickstead

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was…

— Laura Linney

Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is…

— Garry Kasparov

“You should accept the fact that there's no clear boundary between you and the horse, between rationality and instinct. It's not easy…

— Sibyl von der Schulenburg

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of…

— Sigmund Freud

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly…

— Michael Chiklis

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts…

— Mike Carey

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human…

— Alexander Pope

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living…

— Isaac Newton

One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that…

— Aaron Patzer

If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change.…

— Bjorn Borg

I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or…

— Scarlett Johansson

Cats are like oysters, in that no one is neutral about them; everyone is, explicitly or implicitly, friendly or hostile to them.…

— Henry Parry Liddon

To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every…

— Susan B. Anthony

Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start…

— Anonymous

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There…

— Marla Gibbs

In your twenties, I think you should have all of the sex that you're inclined to have, as long as you're safe…

— Sarah Silverman

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

— George Orwell

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Instinct is a marvellous thing," mused Poirot. "It can neither be explained nor ignored.”

— Agatha Christie

For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

— Casey Stoner

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

— Ouida

I don't follow fashion and I don't follow trends, I just follow my instincts

— Victoria Beckham

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

— St. Vincent

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

— Phyllis McGinley

I'm so indecisive that I can't pick a favorite color, and I'm allergic to 12 things.

— Emma Gonzalez

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

— Sugar Ray Robinson

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

— Chris Hughes

“Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?”

— Gaston Bachelard

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

— Steve Jobs

When your gut is telling you something is wrong...well follow your gut feeling because usually something is wrong.

— Anonymous

When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward.

— T. D. Jakes